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How to use the word GOTTEN in a Sentence? Page #41

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Once you've gotten the meaning, you can forget the words.

– Chuang-tzu

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This started off as a father-daughter adventure, and it's gotten wonderfully out of hand...I'm going to fly till I die.

– Jessica Dubroff

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We have scarcely gotten home ... when our children's sneezes greet us, skinned knees bleed after waiting all day to do so. There is the bellyache and the burned-out basement bulb, the stalled car and the incontinent cat. The windows frost, the toilets sweat, the body of our spouse is one cold shoulder and the darkness of our bedroom is soon full of the fallen shadows of our failures.

– William H Gass

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The sage said, 'The best thing is not to hate anyone, only to love.' That is the only way out of it. As soon as you have forgiven those whom you hate, you have gotten rid of them. Then you have no reason to hate them you just forget.

– Hazrat Inayat Khan

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The Mets have gotten their leadoff batter on only once this inning.

– Ralph Kiner

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I don't want to describe the hate mail we've gotten. (on why she was fearful of her husband running for president)

– Alma Powell

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Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them.

– Thomas Sowell

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but hasn't the fine line between sanity and madness gotten finer

– George Price

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